Huge fire? We gotta see that!
So I grabbed the camera, and the four of us headed up the street to see the fire. I got some pretty good pictures of it with my Minolta Dimage 7Hi, the most significant of which being this one.
That picture sat around for probably two years before I uploaded it to Zooomr. From there it took on a new life, garnering plenty of comments and a lot of 'faves' from other users. It was probably my second most popular picture.
In November of 2007, I submitted it to JPG Magazine, an international photography mag that relies at least 80% on user submissions. It was submitted in the "Emotion Capture" category. I solicited votes from my photographer friends, and the picture got a decent amount of attention on JPG's site. But I didn't think too much about it.
That is, until I got an e-mail from JPG saying that my photo had been chosen for publication in issue 14. As if that wasn't cool enough, they were also sending me $100 and a free one-year subscription to the magazine. How cool is that?
So everybody reading this, run out to your local newsstand, Barnes & Noble, or Books-a-Million, and pick up Issue 14 of JPG Magazine, and flip to page 23.
Zoe appreciates your attention.
2 comments:
Congrats, Dave! It's a great photo. You should spend the $$ on something totally useless and frivolous.
It's inspiring how a simple moment captured on camera can lead to such amazing opportunities.
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